[Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse Connect Usage ??

[Michael Crown]

We have used most of the major services and, although we have had a few
problems, Voicepulse has been among the best so far.  Ravi Sakaria
(President, CEO) spoke at astricon and I also met him during the conference
and he was very candid about some of the problems they have had.  I
personally found his candor to be refreshing. Many of the service issues and
configuration changes they have had recently were a result of their
migration away from a proprietary, customized asterisk to a version based on
the CVS distribution.  I think things will start getting much more stable
now.  Voicepulse has been very supportive of the asterisk community and
deserves much credit for getting behind IAX when nobody else was.  We'll be
sticking with them, at least for now.  

BTW, If there is a limit on calls I don't think we have ever hit it.  To my
knowledge, there is none.  It's one thing we like very much about the
service.

Michael Crown
Managing Partner
The VoIP Connection

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Wiebe [mailto:darren at hagenhomes.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:38 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse Connect Usage ??

Thanks Andrew.  I sure agree with most of what you said.  Their setup is
hard to beat in terms of getting new numbers etc. :-)  If other people are
having good luck with them, I'll try to hang on and give them another
chance.  I'll remember the user Voicepulse in IRC.

Thanks,

Darren Wiebe
darren at hagenhomes.com

Andrew Edmond wrote:

>Asterisk-Users --
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>I've been very happy with VoicePulse IAX2 service.  I have not noticed 
>any outages at all.  The user "VoicePulse" in #asterisk on 
>irc.freenode.net is very helpful as well.
>
>Any issues I HAVE had (mainly iax.conf questions) are responded to 
>quickly in the IRC channel.  Setting up new expansion phone numbers
>(DID) for incoming calls is quick, easily done on the web, and 
>inexpensive.
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>It is clear they are committed to Asterisk and it's community.  I'll 
>let you know if my experience changes, but as of now they are a hard 
>provider to beat.
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>Andrew
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>PS: I am just a user of their service and not affiliated with them in 
>case anyone was wondering.  I just thought I'd balance the negative 
>experiences of the prior poster with my more positive experience.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Darren 
>Wiebe
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:11 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse Connect Usage ??
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>John Millican wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Steve 
>>Maroney Hello,
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>>Im paying VoicePulse Connect for one DID. Currently, I can make 
>>several
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>>incoming and outgoing calls at the same time. Is this intentional ? If 
>>so, what is the limit of inbound and outbound calls. Im thinking about 
>>using an asterisk server in a hotel with around 30 rooms. Is 
>>VoicePulse
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>>Connect a good solution for my VoIP <--> PSTN gateway ? If not, then 
>>are there any good VOIP <-> PSTN providers that I can use with my 
>>asterisk server to provide roughly 20 inbound/outbound calls ?
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>>Thank you,
>>Steve Maroney
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>>Steve
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>>>From what Voicepulse told me (iam am using Voicepulse Connect) they
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>>limmeted at this time to 4 simultainious calls in or out.  the say 
>>they
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>>are working on increaseing this number but no date as to when John M
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>That is what they told me too.  When I asked them if they could change 
>that, they said sure.  I do not presently have a limit that I am aware 
>of.  I'm not sure how many incoming calls I have ever had but I have 
>done upwards of 20 simultaneous outgoing calls.
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>I do not want to get into a provider war here but....  I'm scared of 
>Voicepulse.  I've used them for six months and I've had far to many 
>problems.  There have been too many outages and they have changed their 
>callerid to be something non standard.  I had to do a bunch of work to 
>my agi script to get it to work properly, the change was made without 
>notification too.  They have added IAX servers so their reliability may 
>have gone up...  If you need a short list of other providers to try, 
>contact me off list.
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>Darren Wiebe
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